Infant directed speech preference

  • Dunst, Gorman, & Hamby (2012)
  • N papers = 23, N experiments = 75, N participants = 1220
  • Looking times as a function of whether infant-directed vs. adult-directed speech is presented as stimulation.
  • Curator is Alex Cristia
  • Search Strategy: "Studies were located using motherese or parentese or fatherese or infant directed speech or infant-directed speech or infant directed talk or child directed speech or child-directed speech or child directed talk or child-directed talk or baby talk AND infant* or neonate* or toddler* as search terms. Both controlled-vocabulary and natural-language searches were conducted (Lucas & Cutspec, 2007). Psychological Abstracts (PsychInfo), Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC), MEDLINE, Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, Education Resource Complete, and Dissertation Abstracts International were searched. These were supplemented by Google Scholar, Scirus, and Ingenta searches as well as a search of an extensive EndNote Library maintained by our Institute. Hand searches of the reference sections of all retrieved journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and unpublished papers were also examined to locate additional studies. Studies were included if the effects of infant-directed speech on child behavior were compared to the effects of adult-directed speech on child behavior. Studies that intentionally manipulated word boundaries (e.g., Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987; Nelson, Hirsh-Pasek, Jusczyk, & Cassidy, 1989) or used nonsense words or phrases (e.g., Mattys, Jusczyk, Luce, & Morgan, 1999; Thiessen, Hill, & Saffran, 2005) were excluded."
  • Systematic: yes

Cooper, R. P. & Aslin, N. R. (1990). Preference for Infant-directed Speech in the First Month after Birth. Child Development. 61(5), 1584-1595. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02885.x

Cooper, R. P. & Aslin, N. R. (1990). Developmental Differences in Infant Attention to the Spectral Properties of Infant-directed Speech. Child Development. 65(6), 1663-1677. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1994.tb00841.x

Cooper, R. P.; Abraham, J.; Berman, S. & Staska, M. (1997). The development of infants’ preference for Motherese. Infant Behavior and Development 20. 476–88.

Droucker, D., Curtin, S. & Vouloumanos, A. (2013). Linking Infant-Directed Speech and Face Preferences to Language Outcomes in Infants at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 56, 567-576.

Fernald A. (1985). Four-month-old infants prefer to listen to motherese*. Infant Behavior and Development. 8(2), 181-195.

Fernald A. & Kuhl, P. (1987). Acoustic determinants of infant preference for motherese speech. Infant Behavior and Development. 10(2), 279-293.

Glenn, S. M. & Cunningham C. C. (1983). What do babies listen to most? A developmental study of auditory preferences in nonhandicapped infants and infants with Down's syndrome. Developmental Psychology, Vol 19(3), 332-337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.19.3.332

Hayashi, A.; Tamekawa, Y. & Kiritani, S. (2001). Developmental Change in Auditory Preferences for Speech Stimuli in Japanese Infants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 44, 1189-1200.

Inoe, T.; Nakagawa, R.; Kondou, M.; Koga, T. & Shinohara, K. (2011). Discrimination between mothers’ infant- and adult-directed speech using hidden Markov models. Neuroscience Research. 70(1), 62-70.

Kaplan, P. S., Goldstein, M. H., Huckeby, E. R., & Cooper, R. P. (1995). Habituation, sensitization, and infants' responses to motherese speech. Developmental Psychobiology, 28, 45-57.

Kaplan, P. S., Goldstein, M. H., Huckeby, E. R., Owren, M. J., & Cooper, R. P. (1995). Dishabituation of visual attention by infant- versus adult-directed speech: Effects of frequency modulation and spectral composition. Infant Behavior and Development, 18, 209-223.

Newman, R.S. & Hussain, I. (2006). Changes in Preference for Infant-Directed Speech in Low and Moderate Noise by 4.5- to 13-Month-Olds. Infancy. 10(1), 61-76.

Pegg, J.E.; Werker, J.F. & McLeod, P.J. (1989). infants discriminate between infutlrdirected and adult-directed tulk in both males and females. Paper presented at the meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO.

Pegg, J.E. & Werker J. (1992). Preference for infant-directed over adult-directed speech: Evidence from 7-week-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development. 15(3), 325-345.

Robertson, S.; von Hapsburg, D. & Hay.; J.S. (2013). The Effect of Hearing Loss on the Perception of Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 56, 1108-1119.

Schachner, A.; Hannon, E. E. (2011). Infant-directed speech drives social preferences in 5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, Vol 47(1), 19-25.

Segal, J. L. (2010). Infant preferences for two properties of infant-directed speech (Masters thesis). University of Maryland.

Segal, J. & Newman, R.S. (2015) Infant Preferences for Structural and Prosodic Properties of Infant-Directed Speech in the Second Year of Life. Infancy. 20(3), 339-351.

Singh, L.; Morgan, J.L. & Best, C.T. (2002). Infants' Listening Preferences: Baby Talk or Happy Talk? Infancy. 3(3), 365-394.

Singh, L.; Nestor, S.; Parikh, C. & Yull, A. (209). Influences of Infant-Directed Speech on Early Word Recognition. Infancy. 14(6), 654-666.

Trainor, L.J. (1996). Infant preferences for infant-directed versus noninfant-directed playsongs and lullabies. Infant Behavior and Development. 19(1), 83-92.

Werker, J.F. & McLeod, P.J. (1989). Infant preference for both male and female infant-directed talk: A developmental study of attentional and affective responsiveness.Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie, Vol 43(2), 230-246.

Werker, J.F. & Pegg, J.E. (1994).A cross-language investigation of infant preference for infant-directed communication. Infant Behavior and Development. 17(3), 323-333.